Leadership

Executive Profiles

As CEO, Margaret Craig brings a wealth of industry experience to Signiant’s business and growth strategy, with a successful career spanning executive management roles at leading global media technology, software and managed services companies. Prior to assuming leadership of Signiant in October 2011, Margaret served as COO of Ascent Media Network Services, a provider of content creation, management and distribution services. There she led the technology transition to file-based infrastructure and oversaw contract negotiations with some of the world’s largest broadcast organizations. Prior to Ascent Media, Margaret was the CEO of publicly-traded Leitch Technology, a global provider of technical infrastructure for television production and transmission; and served as President of Snell & Wilcox, a provider of video image processing software and hardware.

Adam brings 20 years of financial and operational experience in the technology industry to Signiant with significant focus on growth and evolving business models at venture-backed companies. Before joining Signiant, Adam was CFO at Sermo, the largest online physician community in the U.S., where he helped scale the digital media company across multiple channels and regions. Prior to this, Feinzig was vice president of finance at Gomez – an Internet infrastructure company – during the time when the rapidly growing SaaS company was in the SEC filing process to go public and was sold to Compuware in a highly successful transaction. A CPA by background, earlier Feinzig held senior leadership positions at Stratus Technologies and Notara, and worked within the Technology Industry Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

A 20-year veteran of the high-tech industry, Rick Cramer has a wealth of executive-level experience, combined with expertise in growing software businesses from the ground up. Before joining Signiant, he served as senior vice president of worldwide sales & marketing at Centra where he helped establish the company as a leader in Web-based collaboration. Prior to Centra, Rick was president and CEO of Veridiem, where he engineered a successful restart from an ASP-based marketing consultancy to an enterprise software and services company. Rick was a founding member and executive vice president at Avid Technology where he grew revenues to $400M, and was instrumental in Avid’s successful IPO. Prior to Avid, Rick held sales and marketing positions with Apollo Computer and Xerox Corporation.

Ian Hamilton has been an innovator and entrepreneur in Internetworking infrastructure and applications for more than 20 years. As a founding member of Signiant, he has led the development of innovative software solutions to address the challenges of fast, secure content distribution over the public Internet and private intranets for many of the media and entertainment industries’ largest companies. Prior to Signiant, Ian was Chairman and Vice President of Product Development at ISOTRO Network Management. He was responsible for launching ISOTRO’s software business unit and created the NetID product suite before the company was successfully acquired by Bay Networks. Ian held senior management positions at Bay Networks and subsequently Nortel Networks, from which Signiant emerged. Previously Ian was a Member of Scientific Staff at Bell Northern Research performing applied research and development in the areas of Internetworking and security.

Cory Bialowas joined Signiant as Senior Vice President of Product Management in 2015, bringing two decades of experience with technology companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100. Cory’s proven success at leading teams to translate technology into successful products makes him an invaluable asset to both Signiant and the global network of over 100,000 users of Signiant software. Before joining Signiant, Cory held senior product management roles at companies such as IBM, Wind River (an Intel Company) and NetFore Systems, all based in the technology hub of Ottawa, Canada, where Signiant’s research and development offices are also located. When not corralling Signiant’s product development teams, Cory is a dedicated coach for Ottawa girls’ youth ringette and soccer teams, helping to teach teamwork, fitness and instill confidence. He also volunteers as a member of the Ottawa Refugee Assistance Group, aiding families from war torn areas such as Eritrea and Syria with furniture, clothing and technology needs.

With more than two decades of experience leading high-growth media technology businesses, Mr. Hoskin joined Signiant to continue to build awareness and adoption of the entire portfolio of file movement software, and to scale Signiant’s operations in the European and Asia-Pacific geographies to support the explosive growth of Media Shuttle. Prior to joining Signiant, Greg served as an executive at Omnibus, a leading provider of content delivery software, seeing through its acquisition by Miranda where he served as general manager and in key sales leadership positions. Prior to Miranda, Mr. Hoskin was Managing Director of Megahertz Broadcast Systems, one of the world’s premier independent broadcasting systems integrators. He also served as Vice President of Sales & Operations for Omneon, where he led EMEA activities for the start-up supplier of media servers during the period of market disruption and rapid growth that led to Omneon’s dominant market position.

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About Signiant

Signiant’s intelligent file movement software helps the world’s top content creators and distributors ensure fast, secure delivery of large files over public and private networks. Built on Signiant’s patented technology, the company’s on-premises software and SaaS solutions move petabytes of high-value data every day between users, applications and systems with proven ease.